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‘and the sea is just a wetter version of the sky’ - lyrics by @reginaspektor . . . and this 40x40 will be available this Thursday at a group show entitled An Artist’s Journey, 122 Glass Street in the Dallas Design District, more details to come, we hope you’ll join us!💙

beep beep 🚛📦💙 #deliveryday

from first to final layers, it’s fun having a handful of new babies always in the works🙂✍🏼

April showers outside and ‘Spring Petals’ inside... thanks @lookwalls for adapting my art for your custom wallcoverings, so fun to see brushstrokes in this big scale💗 *check out www.lookwalls.com for more #lookwalls #wallcovering #wallpaper #springpetals #carolynjoeart

Sometimes people tell me they see hearts in my art... my inner-kiddo kinda went wild & embraced it in this piece, there’s even a fine mist of glitter visible in person😆 (fully affixed under glossy resin so my hubby can’t complain🦄✨)... somehow all these little girl hearts make my heart smile big. Any guess how many hearts are painted in these layers? #icounted #artwithheart #messyjoy #happyart #carolynjoeart

Just heard that the wonderful girls at @alignstudios are creating a collaborative #TheMuseCollection piece with two of my favorite littles, to complement this commission of their parents’, two of my favorite bigs (@rzafar😘)... how cool is that?! Gina & Kim, can’t wait to see what y’all create with D&J, what a gift you have!💗

I’ve been workin’ 9 to 5 on this sweet lady for a couple of months now... did you know Dolly is the most honored female country performer of all time? Singer, song-writer, actress, businesswoman and humanitarian... she’s so inspiring, and I’ve felt her warm smile filling up my little studio with good-natured humor & grace all these weeks... my collector wanted to be surprised with the finished commission, so I’m thrilled to finally share a pic. And, a few of my favorite Dolly quotes: 💛 Find out who you are and do it on purpose. 💛 The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. 💛 I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out. (😂) 💛 It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. 💛 You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
#dollyparton #working9to5 #modernportrait #modernportraiture #carolynjoeart

When @rosiebelle214’s #carolynjoeartmidiskirt winds up next to @katieholmes212 at Christian Dior😻 Thank you @rdwinner for the darling pic and for supporting @communitypartnersdallas!

Create stuff. And give it away. The act of creation is what you gave yourself. - Jedidiah Jenkins @jedidiahjenkins. . . love this, and thank you Lakewood for giving so much to our kids and for teaching them to be generous too, i’m hoping this 48x48 will find a new home at next wknd’s Spring Party fundraiser💗

a moment of peace before Monday’s mad dash... hope you have a wonderful week💕

back to blues & greens this morning... frolics from last summer🤸🏻‍♂️

some works in progress... they could be flipped, resined, added to, painted over 🙃 can’t decide but happy to explore & play on this cloudy day

Heard there was a #nationalpuppyday and I guess like a lot of things parental, i’m about a week late (🤷🏻‍♀️😂) but still, so thankful for my #studiopup even when she eats my paintbrushes... #braquefrancais #frenchpointer #carolynjoeart

details of a biggie🍭

I dunno, which way do you think presents this piece best? Scroll to see, maybe the muscles give it a sense of scale?💪🏼😂 This 48x72 just arrived at Magnolia Ave’s Better Homes & Garden’s gallery space in Ft Worth, and it’s available✨

Hello instapeeps😊 so cool ‘meeting you’ here & reading your stories... thanks for scrolling past my paintings, it means the world. I see some new faces and have been asked how long I’ve painted so I thought I’d share... the short answer, it feels a bit like forever, a wonderful 20+yearlong ribbon of color tying together my memories... I majored in art as a teen at Wake Forest, I loved late nights in studio and early mornings working in a bakery, always a sucker for coffee & cookies. I studied at Oxford and worked in a couple of art galleries in Sydney, Australia. I came home to Dallas for the buying program at Neimans. Then 9/11 happened and changed our world forever. Some soul-searching and a God who always provides led me to teaching children’s art. A great joy. Later I moved to Austin to pursue art of another kind, culinary arts (as a kid my grandparents had a Chinese restaurant and I’d always wanted to learn to cook). While in culinary school I painted in my loft downtown and showed my paintings in coffee shops, happily sharing some of my early travel-inspired pieces. Austin was vibrant and always-encouraging and I’ll forever be grateful for such an inclusive community. I did my “culinary externship” in food writing for Texas Monthly and we got married and moved to Philly for my hub’s grad school. In Philly I painted in the living room of our brownstone (built in the 1800’s with high ceilings and glorious light). Fast forward a decade, babies + a whole lot of living, and I realize painting has been this life-giving faithful friend, no matter the city / no matter the season. Nowadays I paint from my humble studio with my studiopup and I can’t wait to see what the future holds. I feel lucky to work with designers creating custom pieces for residential & commercial spaces and my art has been adapted to fabrics, textiles & fashion. I am filled to the brim with gratitude for the example of so many inspiring creatives along the way. *If you make things, write, sing, ice skate, garden, climb mountains, race bikes, whatever you dream, DO IT... do it with all your heart and do it a little bit every day. And may it bring you immense joy in your next 20 years.💛